( ;i9!) ) 



shorter. lu two specimens (Nos. 90.5, 'J38) there is a narrow blackish line on 

 the npper mandible, separating the whitish " teeth " from the yellowish colonr 

 of the culmen. 



The young female (No. 9UG) is even paler and duller red on the mantle, 

 breast, etc., than the young male (No. 410); the feathers of the pilcum are edged 

 with pale red, and the prominent bright reddish yellow lamella at the base of the 

 bill is altogether absent. 



The colonr of the under tail-coverts is rather variable in P. b. stuvmii. They 

 are either all pale yellow (Nos. 44", 939), or the longer ones are clear rnfescent 

 brown, at least their apical portion. 



Nos. 4s8, 410, 589, .iT6, 900 are preserved in the Tring Museum, Nos. 939 and 

 9()5 passed into the Munich Museum, while Nos. 447 and 93S have been incorporated 

 in the collection of Count Berlepsch. 



P. h. sturmii, P. h. hitorquatus, and the recently described P. h. reichowwi * 

 form a natural group, replacing each other geographically. 



(«) P. hitorquatas hit.orquatiis Vig. Para district : Pani, S. Antonio do Prata, 

 Ourem, etc. 



{h) P. bitorquatua rekhenowi Snethl. Lower Amazons : Monte Alegre, San- 

 tarem, Cameta, Rio Jamauchim, etc. 



{c) P. bitorqitatiis sttinnii Natt. Right bank of the Rio Madeira from Borba 

 to Calama, and Rio Machados. 



[347. Pteroglossus flavirostris mariae (iould. 



Ptcniijlo^sH^ Miiriaf. Gould, Monofjr. Rliuniphast. ed. 2. pi. 30 (l>i51. — " the woods clotliiag the sides 

 of the Lower Amazons," errore ! coll. Hau.vwell — Penirian Anur.'ms substituted as type 

 locality ; cf, Hellmayr, Xoi\ ZouL xiv. p. 80). 



P.fiarirot^h-'^ iiif/riae Hellmayr, Xof. ZooL xiv. p. 397 (Humaytha). 



Left bank : Humaytha (Hoffmanns). 



For characters and range of P. f. j/<tcirostris and P. f. mariae cf. ]S'oc. Zool. 

 .xiv. 1907. p. 83. Lately, Miss Snethlagef has recorded the latter race from 

 Pouto Alegre, Upper Purus, the most southerly locality as yet known.] 



[348. Pteroglossus inscriptus Swains. 



rtei-uijl'i.isii!s iiisi-riptm Swaiuson, Z'i'ilo,j. lllusir, (1st scr.) ii. pi. 90 (1820-"il. — ''from the iulerioi- 

 of Guyana," errore ! we substitute Pnid) : Pelzelti, /.<■. p. 236 (city of Mattogrosso, Forte do 

 Principe, Rio Guapore' ; Borba, Rio Madeira). 



Right bank : Borba (Nattercr). 



Specimens from the Madeira district in the Munich Museum, Natterer coll., 

 agree with a good series from Para and Maranhao excepting that the black stripe 

 across the sides of the upper mandible immediately preceding the yellow basal 

 lamella is perhaps slightly broader. In the principal character, viz. the greater 

 portion of the lower mandible being yellow, they are exactly like Para examples. 

 P. inscriptus has evidently a wide range in Amazonia, south of the main valley 

 of the Amazons. It is not uncommon iu the vicinity of Para, where Natterer, 



» Phroi/lussiis reicltenoiL'i Snetlilago, Oniitk. MoiuiLihcr. xv. p. r.)5 (I'JOT. — Monte Alegre). — I am 

 iudebtcd to Count Berlcpscli fni- Uic loan of a fine iipecimen securoil by Miss Snetlilage on the Uio 

 Jamaucliim, an eastern conlhnnl of the Uio Tapajuz. This race principally differs by tlie absence of the 

 yellow jugular baud. 



t Joani.f. Onuth. lull's, p. 'M. 



